Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she’d wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn’t wanted to grant her.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes,...

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Marx made theory… Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization… And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of...

Organization isn’t about perfection; it’s about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social...

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic,...

Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, […] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

William: “I’m sure we can all pull together, sir.”Vetinari: “Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

NCA is a progressive organization, and I don’t know if the state went to them or if they came to the state, but they’re working hand in hand,

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Nature, … in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity...

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.

What we colloquially call ‘feeling bored’ is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Learn from the puppies: Don’t clutter where you live.

Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user’s identity to the identity of the group.

The multiverse is a non-prophet organization of God.

Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soonas fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the pit of the stomach to thethroat and brain, from fear of violence to the...

“Did the men steal the papers?” Reynie asked, fearing her response.No because they are fools,” Sophie said bitterly. “They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough — they were...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to ‘put’ it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we’re going to have...

For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a...

The universe is a non-prophet organization of time.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it!

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything, and if...

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. “Three of the questions were...

Wikipedia […] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

I’m a Red – that’s it. Till the organization tells me otherwise.

If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.

I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of the stakeholders into a unified voice. I created this nonprofit organization to fill that need,

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 “Any large company composed of wholly...

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming ‘gather, then share’ into ‘share, then gather’.

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others....

I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day’s event to occur. Life only stands still for them.